place
Dyadkino Estate
Dyadkino
also: Дядькинская усадьба
The manor estate of Marya Sergeyevna and Nikolai Alexeyich, some five or six versts from Kreshchenskoye, from whose terrace, attic, and grounds the household watches the distant fire before driving out to it.
Reading notes
- An Unkind Night §3 Дядькинской усадьбы
A country estate (usadьba) of the kind owned by the Russian landed gentry, typically a manor house with outbuildings, servants' quarters, and surrounding farmland, standing at some remove from the peasant villages whose land it often bordered or once controlled under serfdom.